Numbers...what do they mean??

Hey all!

I am still working on those basic beginning of the school year skills. One of the skills that we work on all year is counting. I created the following activity to help students see that numbers can be represented in different ways, but that they are still the same number. The first two pages are number cards. Each number will be represented four times. Cut the cards on pages 3 and 4 apart. Students then sort them based on how many items are on the card. (ex. 3 hearts goes on the 3 card, 10 hearts on the 10 card, etc.) Feel free to print and use in your classroom. If you repost this link, please do so in a way that sends people to my blog as this is my original work. Hope you are all enjoying the last few weeks of summer!

Math Number Game

Freebie AND a giveaway...

Have you ever walked through a teacher store and thought, wow, if only I made enough money to buy everything!!! I certainly have thought about what I could do if I had the money to invest in some really quality premade centers. This weekend while taking a walk through the teacher store (and I quite literally walked all through the store to get to the very back where they store the laminating pages for my laminator), I saw so many great ideas. Unfortunately, the price tags were all outside of my "back to school budget".

So, I came home feeling slightly defeated thinking about all of the opportunities for learning there are in that store, and began to think about how I could provide some great opportunities for my students without spending all of my summer money! And tada...my thinking worked! Farm Animal Number Sequencing Puzzles. Although not entirely free (cost of paper, ink, and laminating), I love them! I think my students will, too. This center will also help my students learn the names of different animals before our farm field trip in the fall. The center includes 8 different animal puzzles, with number practice from 1-10. (This center works great for all of you mommies of preschoolers/kindergarteners/first graders! My little guy has been playing with it!)






The good news...I am going to give this fun farm puzzle set to all of my blog followers! All you have to do is comment on this post and leave me your email address. Then, I will email you the electronice version. Once you have the copy you simply print, laminate, and cut.

Even better...for two lucky blog followers I will do all of that work for you and send you not only the electronic version, but I will also send you a hard copy (via the mail or my car--dependingn on which is closer!) already laminated and cut! Oh, and it will be in a great little storage case! That's right...a completely ready to go center for TWO blog followers. Winners will be chosen by number at random.

And the best news...coming soon I will send each of you a second set of African animals with the numbers 10-20, via your email! Again, I will pick TWO lucky winners at random to receive this second set of sequencing puzzles laminated and ready to use in a fun storage case.

All you have to do to receive the puzzle and an opportunity to win the complete center...post your email in the comments section of this blog after signing up to follow on the left side.

If you want additional chances to win you can: post a link to this blog on facebook, post a link to my blog on your blog, or find a friend to sign up to follow my blog with your reference! If you do any of these things just post under the comments an additional time for each thing you have done:)!

Mrs. Kelly's Kindergarten!!

Howdie!

Well, in the midst of an intense World Cup game, I was busy working away on some fun ideas:)! The inspiration for one of those ideas came from Mrs. Kelly's Kindergarten . I was SO excited to find her blog. All in one place I found these:





Those spellers were my inspiration for these:





Mrs. Kelly has tons of great ideas and she would love for you to visit her blog! Make sure to check out her posts about literacy centers and organization. Look at the left side of her blog to find her posts organized by subject! Hope you find some great ideas from Mrs. Kelly!

Freebie!!!

Hey all! I am trying to get ready for the start of the school year and thought I would share a counting practice center with the blogger world! So, here it is... Behive counting! Students count the number of flowers on the beehives and then match the correct bee to each hive. The center is all ready to go...just print, laminate, and cut! Hope you love it!

Please do not post this document as your own work, if you would like to repost please create a link back to my blog. Thanks!

Bee and Bee Hive Counting